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Quotes About Specific

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.
~ Matthew McConaughey
To function, a protein must not only have the necessary chemical components, properly assembled, but then must also be folded into an extremely specific shape. "Folding" is the term that's used
~ Bill Bryson
camouflage (rather oddly from camouflet, meaning "to blow smoke up someone's nose," a pastime that appears on the linguistic evidence to be specific to the French)
~ Bill Bryson
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
~ Sylvia Plath
Autistic thinking is always detailed and specific. Teachers and parents need to help both children and adults with autism take all the little details they have in their head and put them into categories to form concepts and promote generalization.
~ Temple Grandin
pero no lo hizo porque ella sí sabía que la mentira tiene una función específica en nuestras vidas y que es tan necesaria como la verdad, tan importante como la explicación y tan valiosa como el silencio.
~ Juvenal Acosta
By definition, a Special Counsel is charged with investigating particular potential crimes, not all potential crimes wherever they may be found.
~ William Barr
How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.
~ Andrew W.K.
I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
~ Stephen Harper
The power of autobiographical memories lies in their specificity. Colourful and alive, they can be actively called up and dwelled upon. They are reconstructions - which us why they are sometimes false - yet so powerful that they are accompanied by an extraordinary sense of their correctness.
~ Frans de Waal
He grinned, then winked at her as the waiter finally stepped over. "You wanted—" the waiter began. "Liquor," Wayne said. "Would you care to be a little more specific, sir?" "Lots of liquor.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Just under half of the leaders we interviewed initially talked about courage as a personality trait, not a skill. They typically approached the question about specific skills with a "Well, you either have it or you don't" answer.
~ Brene Brown
What does support from me look like?" Not only does it offer the opportunity for clarity and set up the team for success, asking people for specific examples of what supportive behaviors look like—and what they do not look like—it also holds them accountable for asking for what they need.
~ Brene Brown
The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go--this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short--he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.
~ Henry James
When God speaks, he does not give new revelation about himself that contradicts what he has already revealed in Scripture. Rather, God speaks to give application of his Word to the specific circumstances in your life. When God speaks to you, he is not writing a new book of Scripture; rather, he is applying to your life what he has already said in his Word.
~ Henry T. Blackaby
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
~ Theo James
I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.
~ Theo James
How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.
~ Jason Katims
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.
~ Aditi Shankardass
I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this.
~ Margrethe Vestager
The discovery of the fine tuning of the universe, like the discovery of the beginning of the universe itself, represents an effect that requires a cause with specific attributes, including both transcendence and intelligence.
~ Stephen C. Meyer
I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
~ Stephen Harper
It is specific for disease conditions accompanied by weakness and sweating
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
Our intelligence is only a special instance of a general condition.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner